Monday Funnies

We hardly ever look forward to Monday.  It's just a blah, dreary kind of day.  To make Monday a little more fun and get my week off to a great start, I'm going to share some funny things that I've come across on Pinterest, Facebook, and places like that.  Just some things that gave me a little chuckle.  


Here are some things that have made me laugh lately:  

Sorry Broncos fans.  I thought this was pretty funny after all of the hype that was placed on Denver and this man in particular.  

I am pretty easily amused and I may have laughed a little too much at this one.

So very true.

Don't you just hate it when you get this as a response to a text?

I can't think of very many things that embarrass me more than people singing Happy Birthday to me.  You just don't know what to do while a group of people are standing around you singing to you.  

I got a good laugh out of this one.

I know, right?  Don't you just hate that?  I'm going to have to start writing down my information on a pad so I can go back and look it up in case I ever forget.  

This!  Grr!  I'll come across something funny on YouTube that I want to show the boys or Eric, and when they go to look at it, it won't load.  

So very true. 

Gotta love Phoebe.  

Love this line!

One of my favorite lines from this movie

I hope you all got a good laugh from some of these.  


What has made you laugh recently?  

Snow Day 2014

On Tuesday this week we finally got some SNOW!!!  The boys and I were so excited.  We hardly ever get snow anymore and when we do get some, it's usually just a dusting and not much to mess with.  

We got a couple inches this time though and had an amazing time playing in it.  We spent Tuesday evening and most of Wednesday playing outside in the snow.  Our puppy Spots is just a few months old so it was his first experience in snow.  It was fun watching his reaction to it.  He wasn't quite sure what to think of it at first, and then started running around like crazy.  

Here are some pictures from our snow day:

not long after it started snowing
I love this picture
The dog is looking but the boys aren't ;)

Me and my boys <3

"snowball" fight
The snow was really soft so it was more
like a snow cloud fight

Tuesday night

running around the house
Wednesday morning

What I'm Loving Wednesday

*  I'm loving that we got snow yesterday and that the boys are out of school today so they can go out and play in it.  I'll have a blog post all about our snow day later.  :)


*  I'm loving that Logan lost his second tooth today.  He was so excited.  It's been loose for a couple months now.  His teeth just don't want to budge.  ;)


*  I'm loving that both of the boys got good grades on their report cards on Monday.  Logan has improved so much from the beginning of the year with his behavior.  I think we've finally got his ADHD under control.  Chris has improved a lot as well.  I'm so proud of both of them.


*  I'm loving that the book fair is coming to the boys' school next week.  I think I might be more excited than they are!  I just LOVE buying books.  You can never have too many books, contrary to what my husband might say ;)


*  I'm loving that we are going to go to file our taxes this weekend.  There are so many things we need to do when we get our money back.  I'm anxious to get started.  It's always nice to have that extra money around.


*  I'm loving all of the books I've downloaded lately.  I got a tablet for Christmas and downloaded the kindle app.  I never thought I would really be someone who was into e-books since I'm such a lover of real books you can get your hands on, but it's pretty convenient.  I can read new books without the clutter taking up our house like my books are right now ;)  haha.  And I love that your place in the book is saved automatically.  That's just neat.  Thanks to all of these couponing websites I follow on Facebook, every book I've downloaded so far has been free!  I've been browsing book selections on Amazon the last few days and book prices for the kindle really aren't that bad, so I'm sure I'll be buying some soon.


What are you loving lately?  :)

2013 in Review

2013 had its ups and downs just like any year.  Some days/months were better than others.  We made it through though!  

Here are some highlights of things that happened this past year.


January:

*  Chris got an award during Awards Day at school.  He received the Character Award for Honesty.  :)

*  We reconciled with Eric's family.
*  Nothing else major happened in January.  Just the usual day to day activities.


February:

* We went to the book fair at Chris' school.  That's always a potentially dangerous thing.  ;)    I can put away a lot of money at book fairs!

*  We had our first (and maybe only?  I don't remember) snow of the year.   It was exciting, even though it didn't last very long and we didn't get very much.

*  My husband Eric turned 30 years old.

March:

*  We took the boys to a couple of Easter Egg hunts in our area.  We even took their cousins along for one of them.  They had a blast together.

*  We had an Easter celebration at Eric's parents house.  It was the first time everyone had been together in a long time.  This is a picture of all of the cousins together.

April:

*  We took a trip to the lake.  We hadn't been before so it was pretty neat.

*  We took a couple trips to the library and science center.
*  Chris started playing baseball for the local recreation center.

May:

*  Field Day at Chris' school.  Those are always a lot of fun.  They come up with some pretty fun "events" for the kids to participate in.  His school also had an end-of-year party this month.
*  Logan was diagnosed with ADHD.
*  Went to a couple of baseball games.  The circus animals visited during one of the games!

*  We went to the opening of a new park a couple cities away.  It had a huge play area but the most appeal came from the fast that they were opening up a splash pad, too.  We didn't have anything like that in our area so the boys were pretty excited about it.

June:

*  School was out for summer!   Chris brought home an awesome final report card and was officially a second grader.
*  Chris took his first ever ride inside of an airplane!  I was scared out of my mind the entire time he was in the plane but he had a blast.  The Young Eagles program at our airport allows children ages 7-17 to get a free 30 minute airplane ride once a month.  They even give you a little passport to log how many miles you have flown.

*  To keep the boys busy during the summer so they didn't get bored, we took lots of trips to the library, skating rink, science center, and baseball games.
*  I turned 28 years old and celebrated my 8th wedding anniversary with Eric.
*  Eric was finally able to get on first shift at his job.  The entire 9 years we have been together he has always had to work second shift at whatever job he had.  With him being on first shift, it gives us so much more time together as a family.
*  We tried out a water park that our friend had told us about.  It's a little bit of a drive to get there but is totally worth it!  We had a lot of fun.

July:

*  We continued to keep busy with trips to the park, playground, library, science center, and things like that.
*  For the 4th of July we went to the fireworks show at the baseball stadium.


August:

*  Went to a race at the local speedway and Chris got to go down onto the track and meet a few of the drivers.  He thought that was so cool.

*  Went to a pool party to celebrate my niece's 13th birthday.
*  Logan started Kindergarten!

*  Chris started 2nd grade!

September:

*  Went to the pool a few more times before it closed up for the season.

*  The boys participated in the annual Walkathon at their school.  Logan walked 2.25 miles and Chris walked 2 miles.
*  We went to Eric's company picnic.  We had a blast.  They had tons of activities for the kids to do.  We even won some prizes.

October:

*  Chris turned 8 years old!

*  We went to a pumpkin patch and brought along one of the boys' cousins.  :)

*  We roasted marshmallows for the first time.  Chris and Logan absolutely loved that.

*  And of course, we went Trick or Treating on Halloween.   (the white specks are bubbles)

November:

*  After Halloween, a pumpkin patch down the road from us let the remainder of their pumpkins go for free.  We picked some out, brought them back to the house, and made a little set-up in the back-yard and took some fall pictures of the boys.  Our neighbors thought it was such a cute idea they asked if they could use it when we were done.  They even offered to get a family shot for us.  All of you moms out there know we don't usually get to be in the pictures very often because we are the ones behind the camera.  ;)

*  Logan lost his first tooth.  He had been waiting on this for such a long time.  Chris started to lose teeth when he was about 4 1/2, so with Logan being almost 6, he was definitely ready for one to come out.

*  We celebrated Thanksgiving and had dinner with our entire family, both my side and Eric's.  With so many clashing personalities, I'd say it went pretty well!  :)


December:

*  Logan turned 6 years old!

*  We decorated for Christmas and put our tree up, with a little bit of sillyness in the process.  :)

*  Our Elf on the Shelf, Ginger, came back this year.  We had a lot of fun waking up each morning to see what kind of mischief she had gotten into the night before.  What a crazy little elf.  ;)
*  We went to our city's Christmas parade.
*  We celebrated and spent time with both sides of our family on Christmas.


And tonight, on the last night of the year, we will ring in the new year cuddled up under blankets and watching the ball drop.  I wouldn't have it any other way.


All in all, 2013 was a pretty decent year.  I'm looking forward to what 2014 has in store for us.